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A review by leslie_d
Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey from Darkness Into Light by Tim Tingle
3.0
...3 1/2....
Not only the book Saltypie, but the term Saltypie describes problems Tim Tingle’s Choctaw grandmother encountered in her life, from a small child to old age. The story is framed in stories told about the grandmother from various members of Tingle’s family. The collective creates a family history.
“My grandmother was a strong and special Choctaw woman,”and this beloved is the figure around which the story orbits. As one who could be seen as representative of ‘heritage’, hers is a heritage loved and able to find joy despite the pain and struggles experienced due to her Choctaw membership. There is a particularly lovely illustration of a family, corporeal and spirit.
The illustrations engage the reader in the memories Tingle describes, jewel-tone colors and attention to detail record moments warm and sometimes disturbing. The different captures of memories, of portraits, suits the threaded and somewhat linear narrative, while supporting the variant angles and narrators.
There is non-fictional approach to story at the end of the picture book, “How Much Can We Tell Them?” The black and white photos will contain familiar images. Tingle and publisher Cinco Puntos Press are not coy in their desire to educate: “Might we now begin—one parent, one child, one teacher, one classroom at a time—a real and more truthful education about American Indian.”
Saltypie creates that empathy in the storytelling, and the reason in the non-.
L (omphaloskepsis)
http://contemplatrix.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/a-lesson-in-fiction-and-non/
Not only the book Saltypie, but the term Saltypie describes problems Tim Tingle’s Choctaw grandmother encountered in her life, from a small child to old age. The story is framed in stories told about the grandmother from various members of Tingle’s family. The collective creates a family history.
“My grandmother was a strong and special Choctaw woman,”and this beloved is the figure around which the story orbits. As one who could be seen as representative of ‘heritage’, hers is a heritage loved and able to find joy despite the pain and struggles experienced due to her Choctaw membership. There is a particularly lovely illustration of a family, corporeal and spirit.
The illustrations engage the reader in the memories Tingle describes, jewel-tone colors and attention to detail record moments warm and sometimes disturbing. The different captures of memories, of portraits, suits the threaded and somewhat linear narrative, while supporting the variant angles and narrators.
There is non-fictional approach to story at the end of the picture book, “How Much Can We Tell Them?” The black and white photos will contain familiar images. Tingle and publisher Cinco Puntos Press are not coy in their desire to educate: “Might we now begin—one parent, one child, one teacher, one classroom at a time—a real and more truthful education about American Indian.”
Saltypie creates that empathy in the storytelling, and the reason in the non-.
L (omphaloskepsis)
http://contemplatrix.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/a-lesson-in-fiction-and-non/